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Selected Verse: Proverbs 3:12 - King James

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Pr 3:12 King James For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
he delighteth--or receiveth as denoting reconciliation regarding the offense which produced chastisement.
 
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6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.